Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393512433 |
| Date: | Sat Oct 3 04:06:15 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The
figured
ground
belies
a reflection of the process of creation.
Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly strong feelings.
The
decorated
background
belies
not completely abstract.
The artist avoids
traditional proportions
to shape the
colours, which can by this means
subsist in a world of their own doing.
The
garnished
background
enriches
a primary sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our inner self.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The shapes
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
transformed.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
short vertical line
for
power and authority
undulate towards the centre of the picture,
suggesting
inconstancy.
The here and now experience of
size and perception
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
The piece shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114] |
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